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1 a v/;k; & I lkekftd&vkffkzd rfkk tulkaf[;dh ifjflfkfr fo'o esa gj NBk O;fDr Hkkjrh; gs vksj gj NBk Hkkjrh; mùkj izns'k esa jgrk gsa mùkj izns'k tks,d vxz.kh izns'k Fkk vc,d finm+k izns'k cu x;k gsa ;g,d egku izkphu izns'k gs tks larks a&egkrekvks dh Hkwfe vksj dykvks a rfkk oklrqdyk dk dsunz jgk gsa ;gh ls nks egku Hkkjrh; egkdko;ks a] jkek;.k vksj egkhkkjr dh iz sj.kk feyh vksj ;gha cq) us viuk igyk mins'k fn;k vksj fuokz.k izkir fd;ka v;ks/;k] iz;kx] okjk.klh vksj efkqjk tsls mùkj izns'k ds dbz dsunz f'k{kk ds iz[;kr dsunz cu x;sa e/;dkyhu ;qx es a mùkj izns'k eqflye 'kklu ds v/khu vk x;k vksj bl izdkj fgunq vksj blykeh lalñfr;ks a es a,d u;k la'ys"k.k gqvka jkekuun vksj mlds eqflye f'k"; dchj Uttar Pradesh is a story of the Heartland turned Hinterland. A land of great antiquity. home to sages and saints, arts and architecture, that inspired two great Indian epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata and where Buddha preached his first sermon and attained Nirvana. Several centres in Uttar Pradesh like Ayodhya. Prayag, Varanasi and Mathura became reputed centres of learning. In the medieval period Uttar Pradesh passed under Muslim rule and led the way to new synthesis of Hindu and Islamic cultures. Ramananda and his Muslim disciple Kabir, Tulsidas, Surdas, Amir Khusro, Ghalib, Munshi Prem Chand, Jaya Shanker Prasad, and many other intellectuals contributed to the growth of Hindi, Urdu and other languages. The British combined Agra and Oudh into one province and it came to be known as the United Provinces in In January 1950 the United Provinces was renamed as Uttar Pradesh. The state of Uttar Pradesh extends from North to Eastern parts of India with an area of 2,38,566 sq. kms. The state occupies the vast gangetic plains, the ganga basin which is the largest in the world. The State is bounded by Uttranchal and Himachal Pradesh in the north, Haryana in the west, Madhya Pradesh in the south and Bihar in the east. Uttar Pradesh has two distinct regions (i) Southern hills and (ii) Gangetic Plain. The State is divided into 70 Districts and 897 Blocks for purposes of administration. There are a total of 98,248 villages where close to 80% of the state s population lives. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India with a population of million accounting for 16.17% of the total population of the country and every sixth Indian resides in this state. The status of women in Uttar Pradesh has seen many high and low points. This is a land that can boast of women scholars, Matreyi and Gargi, Rishikas and Brahmvadinis of the distant past and recent historical figures of Lakshmi Bai and Begum Hazrat Mahal, who were among the torch bearers of the freedom struggle and equalled and excelled men in valour and courage. After independence, many illustrious women from Uttar Pradesh did the country proud. Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India, was the first woman Governor of U.P. first in India. Sucheta Kriplani was the first woman Chief Minister of U.P. and Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of the country hailed from Uttar Pradesh (as did her predecessors Nehru and Shastri). Mahadevi Varma was among the famous Hindi literatures of the country. The role of Begum Hamida Habibullah, a former Member of Parliament, in organizing common women for self employment under SEWA is an ongoing ode to the contribution of such women leaders. However, the overall situation of girls and women in Uttar Pradesh as it obtains today is grim, to say the least bulk of women of U.P. remain illiterate. (1)

2 Current Socio Economic Scenario The state has made substantial progress since the First Five Year Plan but continues to be among the most economically and socially backward, states of the country although the state has tremendous potential and diversity which needs to be tapped. The state has sufficient natural resources, largest skilled, unskilled manpower, largest food grain produce, numerous places for tourism development, sufficient prospects of dairy development and growth of agro based industries (Annual plan 2003). High population growth rates are constraining the development efforts. The state is far from universalization of elementary education and total literacy. Agricultural potential is not fully tapped and about 28% of the net sown area is not irrigated. The infrastructure facilities are inadequate. More than half the villages are not connected by metalled roads. There is low industrialization, limited to certain pockets near the country s capital and there is insufficient diversification in agriculture. The pressure of population on land is extremely high and the continuing high population growth rate in UP has its adverse implications for development of the state. The state has high incidence of poverty and there is widening gap between per capita income of the State and country. The poverty ratio has come down from 57.07% in 1973 to 47.07% in 1983 and to 31.5% in Though there has been steady and sizeable decline in poverty ratio the absolute number of poor have remained above 500 lakh between during this period. In 1973 there were lakh persons below poverty line. In there were lakh poor out of which lakh were in rural areas and lakh in urban areas. Around one-fourth of India s poor live in Uttar Pradesh. The poverty ratios are very high in the state compared to many other states like Andhra Pradesh (15.77%), Gujarat (14.07%), Haryana (8.74%), Punjab (6.16%) and Rajasthan (15.28%). Only four states namely Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa have a higher poverty ratio of 36.09%, 42.60%, 37.43% and 47.15% respectively. (National Human Development Report, Planning Commission, GOI, March 2002). Per capita income of UP in at Rs. 9749, was much lower than the national per capita income of Rs Per Capita Consumption Expenditure in was Rs for UP compared to Rs for India as a whole. Rural per capita consumption expenditure in UP was Rs compared to Rs for India as a whole and the urban per capita expenditure was Rs in UP and Rs for India. Per capita power consumption of the UP is only half of the national average. In industrial development also, the state is lagging behind. The composition of the labour force and its contribution to SDP in U.P. shows that while close to 75% of total workers are in agriculture, their share in State income is 36 %. Manufacturing with 8% share in workers contribute 12.2 percent of the State income in Only 7.75% of total workers in the state are engaged in manufacturing against the all India figure of 10.03%. Leaving aside Noida and some of its neighbouring area in the vicinity of Delhi, most of the other parts of this sprawling state are industrially still underdeveloped. The state has a weak industrial base. The share of household industry in the total work force of this sector stood at 31% in 1991 and nonhousehold industry at 69%. Agriculture is marked by low productivity and lack of diversification on account of uneconomic and nonviable operational holdings, inadequate and inefficient irrigation network, lack of developed rural infrastructure particularly road, lack of proper and adequate marketing and storage facilities with (2)

3 little contribution from agro processing units. The net cultivated area in the state is lakh hectares. In , 11.5 lakh hectares of culturable, waste/user land and 16.9 lakh hectare of fallow land still available for profitable use. About 26.3% of net sown area is without any irrigation; and 75% of total land holdings in the state were less than I hectare in and accounted for 33.75% of the total area of holdings. The average size of holdings in this category was only 0.39 hectare. The increase in the number and area of uneconomic and non viable agriculture holdings along with shrinking average size of holdings are major hurdle in capital formation and growth in agriculture. The fact that the state produces a large amount of food and edibles, agro processing is an area that needs to be strengthened. The state has 109 working sugar mills which crush around 30% of the total sugarcane produced in the state. There are not sufficient agro processing units in the state even though the state accounts for producing 22-25% of total fruit and vegetable produce in the country. Forest cover has gone down considerably after the formation of Uttaranchal State, the hilly/forest part of UP earlier. Only 4.46% of UP s geographical area is under forest cover now. The total road length in the State is 1,03,795 kms. This includes 3,774 km of national highways, 7,392 km of state highways, 9,911 km of important district roads, 25,246 km of other district roads and 72,931 km of rural roads. UP is considerably behind in terms of road length. The states total metalled roads at 93.6 kms. per lakh of population in is far less than all other major states except Bihar and West Bengal. The corresponding length of these metalled road in the same year was as high as km in Maharashtra, km in Tamil Nadu, km in Punjab and km in Haryana. Of the total 97,134 villages, 53,945 villages (55%) are unconnected with all other roads. Per capita power consumption in UP ( Kwh) during better only than Bihar ( Kwh) is far lower than the All India level ( Kwh) Electricity is not available at all places in rural areas and the supply is neither regular nor assured although 79% villages are stated to be electrified. There are fluctuations and breakdowns very often. The state has only 5.73 lakh electrified tube wells on March 31st 2002 against 30.8 lakh diesel operated tube wells. It would be far more cheaper and convenient to use electricity for purposes of irrigation rather than heavy dependence on non renewable resource of diesel for which there is external reliance and resultant heavy levels of pollution. Regional Disparities Regional disparities are very marked. The state is divided into four economic regions, namely, Eastern, Western, Central and Bundelkhand. The Western region is the most developed followed by the Central region. Eastern region is the least developed region. Eastern region (27 districts) : Moderately developed : Varanasi and Gorakhpur; Less developed : Deoria; Mirzapur; Ballia; Allahabad; Sultan Pur; Jaunpur; Sonebhadra; Faizabad; Ghazipur; Azamgarh; Mau; Basti. Backward : Pratapgarh; Maharajganj; Gonda; Siddharthnagar; Bahraich. Western Region (26 districts) : Developed: Ghaziabad; Meerut; Muzzafarnagar; Saharanpur; Mathura; Bijnore; Haridwar; Agra. Moderately Developed: Rampur; Moradabad; Bulandshahar; Bareilly; Aligarh; Pilibhit; Mainpuri. Less Developed: Firozabad; Farukhabad; Shahajahanpur; Etah; Etawah. Backward: Badaun.. Central Region (10 districts) : Developed: Kanpur Nagar; Lucknow. Moderately Developed: Rae Bareilli; Kheri; Barabanki. Backward: Fatehpur; Kanpur Dehat; Sitapur; Hardoi. Bundelkhand Region (7 districts). Moderately developed: Jhansi; Less developed: Jalaun. Backward: Hamirpur; Lalitpur, Banda. (Ajit Kumar Singh, Uttar Pradesh Development report, 2000, New Royal Book Co., Lucknow, 2001 (3)

4 quoted from Annual Plan for UP 2003). Table 1 : Regional Disparities in Uttar Pradesh : Some Indicators Variables Eastern Western Central Bundelkband Uttar Pradesh I. P.C NSDP at current prices in rupees 6,995 12,385 9,637 9,267 9, Population Density per sq. km Population growth (%) % Population urban in % SC Population to total % share in state s population I % villages with population less than 200 in Literacy Percentage Total Female Literacy % in Hospitals/dispensaries/PHCs per lakh population MCH/Sub centre per lakh population in Jr. Basic schools per lakh population in Sr. Basic schools per lakh population in Length of roads per lakh population (Km) in Length of roads per 1000 Sq. km. area (Km) in % Villgaes electrified in % holdings less than one hectare in Source: Draft Annual Plan, 2003, Government of Uttar Pradesh, State Planning Commission, January, 2003 Poor, Pregnant, Powerless Regional disparities and poverty affects women and children the most, and negatively affects the survival, protection and development of the girl child. Gender disparities in all indicators are wider in less developed regions. The less developed regions have very often difficult topography, low developmental infrastructure of roads, water, sanitation, and relatively lower access to social services like education and health. Eastern UP which accounts for 40% of the state population has the lowest P.C. NSDP, highest population growth, lowest urbanization, lowest provision of primary schooling, lowest road connectivity, and the lowest literacy rates for all persons and for females. (4)

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10 Population Characteristics Uttar Pradesh is the most populated state of India accounting for 16.17% of the country s total population spread over 2,38,566 sq km, ranking fifth in terms of area. The population of the state has nearly tripled from 63.2 million in 1951 to million in 2001 which is higher than the estimated population of Pakistan (157 million). (Census of India 2001, Provisional Totals). Among the 70 districts of the state, Allahabad has recorded highest population of 4,941,510 persons followed by Kanpur Nagar (4,137,489), Azamgarh (3,950,808), Jaunpur (3,911,305) and Gorakhpur (3,784,720). Allahabad continues to hold first rank while Deoria, which was at the second spot at the 1991 Census has been pushed back by Kanpur Nagar consequent upon creation of the new district Kushi Nagar out of Deoria. Mahoba, now with a population of 708,831 is at the bottom in the state, preceded by Chitrakoot (800,592), Lalitpur (977,447), Hamirpur (1,042,374) and Baghpat (1,164,388). However, at the 1991 Census, Lalitpur district was at the bottom in terms of population. The average population per district at the 2001 Census comes out to 2,372,184 persons. Thirty-four districts of the state have a population more than the state average. There are three districts, which have recorded a population less than ten lakhs, while 24 districts have recorded a population between lakhs, 23 in the range of lakhs and 18 districts in the range of lakhs. There are only two districts, viz., Allahabad and Kanpur Nagar, which have recorded more than 40 lakh population. Annual Exponential Growth rate The Annual Exponential Growth rate percent continues to be high at 2.3 during compared the national average of 1.9. The Decadal Growth rate The Decadal Growth rate during has increased to 25.8 compared to 25.6 during and from 16.4 during The population growth continues to be very high and nullifies the development efforts and inputs. The Decadal Population Growth rate has gone up from 16.4 during to 25.8 during The absolute decadal variation in the population during was 34,054,055 persons, giving a decadal growth of per cent which is 0.25 per cent more than the corresponding growth (25.55 per cent) recorded during the previous decade ( ). The absolute increase in population of Uttar Pradesh (34.1 million) during is more than the population of Canada (31.1 million), Venezuela (24.2 million), and combined populations of Australia and New Zealand (22.7 million). The increase (34,054,055 persons) in the population of U.P. during the decade ( ) is roughly equal to the population of entire North Eastern States (39,035,582) or the population of Orissa (36,706,920) or the combined population of Goa (1,343,998), Lakshdweep (60,595), Kerala (31,838,619), Pondicherry (973,829) and Andaman & Nicobar Islands (356,265) States / VTs. Among districts, Ghaziabad observed highest growth (47.47 per cent) during the decade followed by Sonbhadra (36.13), Gautam Buddha Nagar (35.70), Chitrakoot (34.33) and Firozabad (33.44). Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi district (10)

11 which had a growth rate per cent during has now declined sharply to per cent during the decade Thirty two districts have recorded higher growth as compared to average decadal growth (25.80) of the state. Population Density The Population Density of the state at 2001 census is 689 as against 548 persons per Sq. km. at the 1991 Census. This implies that the population pressure on one Sq. km. of area has increased by 141 persons. Highest population density (1,995) has been observed in Varanasi district, followed by Ghaziabad (1,682), Lucknow (1,456), Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi (1,409) and Kanpur Nagar (1,366). Thirty nine districts recorded higher population density as compared to the average population density (689) observed for the state. The lowest density (194) is observed in Lalitpur district, which continued to be most sparsely populated district in the state although it has gained a pressure of 45 persons per sq. km. in comparison to the previous Census. Table 2 : Population Characteristics of Uttar Pradesh State/District Population % to total Density per % Decadal % Rural % SC % ST Sex Ratio Child Sex 2001 population sq. Km. Growth Rate Ratio Saharanpur Muzaffarnagar Bijnor Moradabad Rampur Jyotiba Phulenagar Meerut Baghpat Ghaziabad Gautam Budhha Nagar Bulandshahr Aligarh Hathras Mathura Agra Firozabad Etah (11)

12 Mainpuri Badaun Bareilly Pilibhit Shahjahanpur Kheri Sitapur Hardoi Unnao Lucknow Rae Bareili Farrukhabad Kannauj Etawah Auraiya Kanpur Dehat Kanpur Nagar Jalaun Jhansi Lalitpur Hamirpur Mahoba Banda Chitrakoot J Fatehpur Pratapgarh Kaushambi Allabahad Barabanki Faizabad Ambedkar Nagar Sultanpur Bahraich Shrawasti (12)

13 Balrampur Gonda Siddharthnagar Basti Sant Kabir Nagar %S &3 934 Maharajganj Gorakhpur Kushinagar Deoria Azamgarh Mau Ballia Jaunpur Ghazipur Chandauli Varanasi Bhadohi Mirzapur Sonbhadra 146J Total Scheduled Caste Scheduled Caste constitutes 21.24% of the total population in the state compared to the All India average of %. Scheduled Tribes account for a very miniscule proportion ( 0.21 %) of the state population (1991 Census). The SC population ranges from 12.66% in District Bareilly to 42.5% in District Sonabhadra. Majority of the Scheduled Caste (88%) reside in rural areas and 12% live in urban areas. The sex ratio among SC is 897. According to 1991 census the SC literacy rate in UP was 26.85% compared to 41.60% among total population. Female Literacy amongst Scheduled Caste was as low as 10.69% compared to over au female literacy rate of %. Scheduled Tribes Scheduled Tribes constitute a miniscule proportion of the state population. The state has only 0.76 lakhs scheduled tribes in UP. Mostly found in 7 districts of Khedi, Balrampur, Shrawasti, Bahraich Maharajganj, Haridwar and Bijnor. (13)

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15 Only Buxa and Tharu were found in Uttar Pradesh with Tahrau s numbering and Buxa 1860 and 21,769 other scattered tribes. Tharus live in Terai, Bhawar in the northern portion of almost all the districts falling in this track. They are mainly found in Bahraich, Shrawasti, Balrampur, Kheri and Maharajganj and are basically agriculturists. The women being earning members of the family occupy an important positions and play a vital role. The eldest female member happens to be the head of the household. Joint family system is common among the Tharus and they have strong traditional panchayati organisation to settle their disputes and to ensure adherence to their common code of conduct. They are mostly non vegetarian and consume liquor which they believe provides them with partial immunity from malaria. Buxas are of Mongolian descent and claim Rajput origin. In habits and customs they closely resemble Tharus. They are supposed to be original inhabitants of Terai. They are found in the Terai and Bhawar areas of sub Himalayan range of the State. Buxas are the followers of Rama and Krishna and worship Hindu Gods and Goddesses. Educationally and economically, they are more backward than Tharus. Agriculture is their main occupation. (Draft Annual Plan of UP 2003). Rural Urban Distribution Urbanization is low in Uttar Pradesh as a whole. Close to 80% population of Uttar Pradesh resides in rural areas. Rural populations range from 97% in Shrawsati to 33% in Kanpur Nagar. Missing Women: Adverse Sex Ratio The sex ratio (number of females per thousand males) is an important indicator of the status of women and of gender discrimination. Sex ratio (number of females per thousand males) has shown an improvement from a low of 876 to 898 during Females account for only 47.33% of the total population of UP of 166,052,859. There are 8 million fewer females in a total population of 166 million in the state comprising 87 million (52.67%) males and 79 million (47.33%) females. Males have out-numbered females in all the districts barring Deoria (1,003), Jaunpur (1,021) and Azamgarh (1,026). Pratapgarh is the only district where sex ratio has declined from 987 in 1991 to 983 at the 2001 Census. Azamgarh district has recorded highest sex ratio (1,026) followed by Jaunpur (1,021) and Deoria (1,003), whereas the lowest sex ratio (838) has been observed in Shahjahanpur preceded by Mathura and Budaun (both 841), Gautam Budhha Nagar (842) and Hardoi (843). The lowest sex ratio was, however, observed in Budaun district (810) at the 1991 census. There are 21 districts, which have recorded higher sex ratio than the state average figure (898) whereas Unnao has recorded sex ratio equal to the state average at the 2001 Census. Three districts viz., Faizabad, Sultan pur and Sant Kabir Nagar have improved their sex ratio by more than 40 points in the 2001 Census as compared to 1991 Census. Six districts viz., Ballia, Jhansi, Deoria, Basti, Baghpat and Allahabad have also recorded more females but the gain is less than 10 points. Seventeen districts recorded improved sex ratio in the range of 10- (15)

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21 20 points, whereas 32 districts have recorded a gain in the range points while in 11 districts the gain is in the range points. Sex ratio for state and all the districts for 1991 as well as 2001 has been presented in Table-l at appendix. The sex ratio amongst the Scheduled Tribes females was 910 which was much higher than SC or General population. Missing Girls : Declining Child Sex Ratio There are more than one million girls missing in the age group 0-6 years. While the overall sex ratio improved from 876 in 1991 to 898 in 2001, Sex Ratio in 0-6years age group has declined from 927 to 916 during this period. The number of children in the age group 0-6 years was 30, 472,042 at the 2001 census count, 15,903,900 male and 14,568,142 female, giving a female deficit of 1,335,758. This decline in child sex ratio can be attributed to the acute son preference and daughter neglect. The child sex ratio ranges from 847 in Meerut to 977 in Gorakhpur. This was intra state variation appears to be related to the level of urbanization of a district and easy availability of sex needs careful study and urgent attention. The worsening SRB (Sex Ratio at Birth) with 115 male births to 100 female births in Uttar Pradesh is pregnant with meaning. Sex selective abortions are on the rise and female foeticide continues unabated especially in the urban areas with easy availability of sex detection and abortion. Table 3 : Estimated male live births per 100 female live births in major states and Sl. INDIA / Major States Male live births per 109 Male live births per 109 No. female live births female live births INDIA Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Gujarat Haryana Karnataka Kerala IO7.1 8 Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa (21)

22 Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Source: Census of India 1991, Population Projections for India and States , Registrar General India, New Delhi and Sample Registration System (SRS), 1999 Human Development Index (HDI) In 2001 the Human Development Index (HDI) for Uttar Pradesh is compared to for India and for Kerala. In 1991 the HDI was compared to for India. The Gender Disparity Index (GDI) for Uttar Pradesh was compared to for India and for Himachal Pradesh and for Kerela (National Human Development Report 2001). Table 4 : Human Development Index for UP and India Rural Urban Combined Gender Disparity Index Value Rank Value Rank Value Rank Value Rank UP India UP India UP NA NA NA NA NA NA India NA NA NA Source : National Human Development Report, Planning Commission, GOI, March 2002 (22)

23 Table 5 : Some selected social indicators for UP I Major States of India SI. State Female Life expectancy IMR (per 1000 live births) MMR TFR Birth Death No. Literacy at birth rate rate Rate (per (per 2001 ( ) (2000) ) 1000) M F M F T Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Gujarat Haryana Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa ]1. Punjab Rajasthan Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh West Bengal India Note: M indicates Male; F indicates Female and T indicates Total Source : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and Census of India. Life expectancy at birth Life expectancy at birth has improved in the last two decades. Female life expectancy at birth in Uttar Pradesh has improved from 48.5 during to during , the corresponding rise in expectation of life at birth amongst males is from 51.4 to Birth and Death rates Birth and Death rates are higher than the national average. Birth rate has come down from 41.0 per 1,000 population in 1976 to a still very high rate 32.1 (33.1 for rural areas and 26.7 for urban areas) in Death rate has come down from 20.5 per thousand population in 1976 (23)

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26 to 10.2 (11.0 for rural areas and 7.7 for urban areas) in The natural growth rate per thousand amounts to 21.6 (22.1 for rural areas and for urban areas). (SRS 1999). According to MOHF the birth rate per thousand in 2000 was 32.8 for UP compared to the national average of 25.8 and 17.9 for Kerala. Likewise the death rate per thousand in 2000 in Uttar Pradesh is slightly lower now at 10.3 compared to 8.5 for India as a whole and 6.4 for Kerala. Infant Mortality Rate Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) per thousand live child births has come down from 130 per 1,000 live births in to 84 in , 87 for rural areas and 64 for urban areas. There are more female infant deaths. The IMR was 92.9 for girls and 78.8 for boys for Uttar Pradesh compared to 73.5 and 69.8 at the national level according to SRS The figures for the year 2000 place the IMR for UP at 83, 81 for males and 87 for females. The corresponding IMR for the India as a whole is 68, 67 for males and 69 for females. The IMR is as low as 14 in Kerala and is lower for females, male IMR being 15 compared to 13 for females (MOHFW). Child Mortality for Age groups 0-4 years and for 5-14 years Table 6 : Estimated Death Rates by Sex among children of India and Major States, 1999 India and Major Children 0-4 years (%) Children 5-14 years (%) States Total Male Female Total Male Female India Andhra Pradesh Assam Bihar Gujarat Haryana Himachal Pradesh Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa Punjab Rajasthan (26)

27 Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Source: Registrar General, India (2002). Sample Registration System, Statistical Report New Delhi, the author p Child Mortality for age groups 0-4 years and for 5-14 years continues to be higher among girls than boys in Uttar Pradesh. Higher female mortality during childhood and reproductive age group shows that gender discrimination is all pervasive. The estimated death rate among children 0-4 years in Uttar Pradesh is much higher than the national average. Female death rate in 0-4 years in Uttar Pradesh is 29.8% compared to 26.6% for males. In the age group 5-14years female death rate is 2.6 compared to 1.7% for males. The cause for higher female and child mortality in Uttar Pradesh (as in India) is rooted in the relative neglect of the female infants and female children on account of the acute syndrome of son preference and daughter neglect. Maternal Mortality Rate The Maternal mortality Rate (MMR) for the country as a whole is 407 but in Uttar Pradesh it is as high as 707. MMR of 707 per 100 thousand in Uttar Pradesh is the highest in the country. A lot many more women die in maternity related deaths. Adolescent girls especially in rural areas are married early and bear children before they have matured themselves. Age at Marriage Women in Uttar Pradesh tend to marry at an early age. The age at marriage for rural girls is lower due to traditional beliefs and value system in Uttar Pradesh. According to NFHS II ( ) nearly a third of girls between 15 to I9 were married and in the age group years more than 50% women had got married before 18 years of age and a quarter even before 15 years of age. The mean age at marriage in the state was years in 1991 and has gone up to 19.5 (at effective marriage) according to latest SRS estimates. The inter district/regional disparities are extremely wide. Whereas less than 6% girls marry below the age of 18 years in Kanpur Nagar the figures are as high as 35% in Lucknow; 48% in Auraiya; 50% in Mainpuri; 52% in Allahabad; 70% in Ambedkar Nagar; 72% each in Chitrakoot. Chandauli and Varanasi; 79% each in Bahraich and Shrawasti, 82% in Maharajganj; 84% in Lalitpur (National Commission on Population 2001). According to NFHS in , thirty-two percent of women age are already married, and an additional 8 percent report that they are married but gauna has yet to be performed. In rural areas, almost half of women age have already married. Older women are more likely than younger women to have married at an early age and the proportion of women who marry young (27)

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29 is declining rapidly, 62 percent of young women age in Uttar Pradesh still marry before reaching the legal minimum age of 18 years. Total Fertility Rate TFR (Total Fertility Rate) is 4.9 ( ) is much higher compared to All India average of 3.4 and which is 1.8 for Kerala and 1.5 each for Nagaland and Goa. Couple Protection Rate The CPR (Couple Protection Rate) is 28.1 much lower compared to All India average of 48.2 and 67.7 in Himachal Pradesh; 66.7 in Punjab and 63.7 in Kera1a according to NFHS (29)

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31 Health and Family Welfare In the rural area, according to the Government of India norms, 3640 Primary Health Centres (PHCs) were functioning and 34 I Community Health Centres (CHCs) have also been established. In addition, 18,565 sub centres are functioning providing the medical care services to the pregnant mothers and child care to the newly born babies. According to NFHS II, large majority of household respondents in Uttar Pradesh (85 percent) said that household members usually go to private hospitals or private doctors for treatment when they get sick. Only 11 percent normally use the public medical sector. Even among poor households only 9 percent normally use the public medical sector when household members become ill. Fertility and Family Planning: Some Key NFHS II Findings ( ) Despite some gains in the utilization of these services over time, Uttar Pradesh consistently performs worse than almost every other state on each of the indicators measured in NFHS-2. Although fertility continues to decline in Uttar Pradesh, at current fertility levels, women will have an average of 4.0 children each throughout their childbearing years. The total fertility rate has come down from 4.8 children per woman at the time of NFHS-I, but it is still one of the highest rates in India (higher than any other state except Meghalaya). Efforts to encourage the trend toward lower fertility might usefully focus on groups within the population that have higher fertility than average. In Uttar Pradesh, women living in rural areas, illiterate women, poor women, Muslim women, and women from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes have much higher fertility than other women. Fertility rates are much lower in the Hill Region than in any other region in the state. One important feature of the fertility pattern is the high level of childbearing among young women. The median age at first childbirth is 19 years, and women age account for 15 percent of total fertility. Studies in India and elsewhere have shown that health and mortality risks increase when women give birth at young ages - both for the women themselves and for their children. Family planning programmes focusing on women in this age group could make a significant impact on maternal and child health and could also reduce overall fertility in the state The appropriate design of family planning programmes depends, to a large extent, on women s fertility preferences. Women may have large families because they want many children, or they may prefer small families but, for a variety of reasons, may have more children than they actually want. For 14 percent of births over the three years preceding NFHS-2, mothers report that they did not want the pregnancy at all, and for another II percent of births, mothers say that they would have preferred to delay the pregnancy. When asked about their preferred family size, 19 percent of women who already have three living children and 11 percent of women with four or more living children said that they consider the two-child family to be ideal. This gap between women s actual fertility experience and what they want or would consider ideal suggests a need for expanded or improved family welfare services to help women achieve their fertility goals. In Uttar Pradesh, 94 percent of women want at least one son and 89 percent want at least one daughter. A strong preference for sons is indicated by the fact that more than half of women want more sons than daughters but only a negligible proportion want more daughters than sons. (34)

32 Skilled Attention during Pregnancy: Whereas 89% women in Meerut and Baghpat receive skilled attention during pregnancy, their percentage is as low as 8.5% in Hamirpur and 11% in Bahraich and Shrawasti. (National Population Commission, 2001). Knowledge of contraception is nearly universal: 98 percent of currently married women know about at least one modern family planning method. Women are most familiar with female sterilization (97 percent), followed by male sterilization (93 percent), the pill (85 percent), condoms (83 percent), and the IUD (74 percent). Knowledge of modem spacing methods has increased by percentage points since the time of NFHS-1, although use rates for these methods remain very low. Twenty-eight percent of married women are currently using some method of contraception, an increase from 20 percent at the time of NFHS-1, but much lower than the NFHS-2 national level of 48 percent Contraceptive prevalence is almost twice as high in urban areas (45 percent) as in rural areas (24 percent). Female sterilization is by far the most popular method, used by more than half of all current contraceptive users. The median age at sterilization (28 years) is two years higher in Uttar Pradesh than in India as a whole. In all, 15 percent of currently married women are sterilized, a slight increase from 12 percent at the time of NFHS-1. By contrast, only 1 percent of women report that their husbands are sterilized. Four percent of women report that their husbands use condoms. Use rates for the pill and the IUD remain very low, at only I percent each. Six percent of women report that they are currently using traditional methods, mostly the rhythm method. There are substantial variations in contraceptive prevalence among socioe-conomic groups. Contraceptive prevalence is higher than 40 percent among women, women living in the Hill Region, women who have completed at least a high school education, Sikh women, and women living in households with a high standard of living. Use of modern spacing methods - pills, IUDs, and condoms - is highest (18-21 percent) among women living in urban areas and women who have completed at least high school. Contraceptive use rises steadily with age, peaking at 46 percent for women age and declining thereafter. Use also increases with the number of living children, to percent among women with three or more children. A strong preference for sons is evident for women at every parity. Women who have one or more sons are consistently more likely to use contraception than are women who have the same number of children but have only daughters. For example, almost half of women with three children and at least two sons use some method of contraception. However, only 9 percent of women with three children all of whom are daughter use contraception. Twelve percent of currently married women are not using contraception but say that they want to wait at least two years before having another child. Another 13 percent are not using contraception although they do not want any more children. These women are described as having an unmet need for family planning. The unmet need is highest for young women, who have a strong interest in spacing their births. These results underscore the need for strategies that provide spacing as well as terminal contraceptive methods in order to meet the changing needs of women over their lifecycle. (35)

33 For many years, the Government of India has been using electronic and other mass media to promote family planning. Among the different types of media, television and radio have the broadest reach across all categories of women. Overall, 32 percent of ever-married women watch television at least once a week, and 30 percent listen to the radio at least once a week. Nevertheless, more than half of women (55 percent) are not regularly exposed to television, radio, or other types of media. About half of women (53 percent) saw or heard a family planning message in the media during the few months preceding the survey. Television and radio are the primary sources of these messages. Exposure to family planning messages is relatively low among disadvantaged socioeconomic groups. Family planning messages reach only one-quarter to one-third of illiterate women, women from households with a tow standard of living and women belonging to scheduled tribes. From the information provided in NFHS-2, a picture emerges of women marrying before the legal age at marriage, having their first birth at 19 years of age, and having about four children before ending their childbearing. However, only 38 percent of women with four or more living children use any method of family planning, so the risk of pregnancy remains substantial even for that group. Promotion of maternal and child health has been one of the most important components of the Reproductive and Child Health Programme of the Government of India. One goal is for each pregnant woman to receive at least three antenatal check-ups plus two tetanus toxoid injections and a full course of iron and folic acid supplementation. In Uttar Pradesh, mothers of 35 percent of the children born in the three years preceding NFHS-2 received at least one antenatal check-up (only about half the level of 65 percent for India as a whole), and mothers of only 15 percent of children received at least three antenatal check-ups. Only one-third of women (32 percent) received iron and folic acid supplementation during their pregnancies (a smaller percentage than in any other state except Bihar), but mothers received the recommended number of tetanus toxoid vaccinations for more than half of children (51 percent). Women in disadvantaged socio-economic groups are less likely than other women to be covered by each of the three recommended types of antenatal care. However, coverage is inadequate for all groups of women. Infact, for all births in the three years preceding the survey, only 4 percent of women in Uttar Pradesh received all of the recommended types of antenatal care. The Reproductive and Child Health Programme encourages women to deliver in a medical facility or, if at home, with assistance from a trained health professional and to receive at least three check-ups after delivery. During the three years preceding NFHS-2, only 15 percent of births in Uttar Pradesh were delivered in a medical facility. Seventy-four percent were delivered in the woman s own home and 10 percent in her parents home. Trained health professionals assisted with the delivery in only 22 percent of cases. Thirty-five percent of deliveries were assisted by a dai (a traditional birth attendant), and 43 percent were attended only by relatives, friends, and other persons who were not health professionals. Less than 10 percent of births delivered at home were assisted by a health professional. Postpartum check-ups are rare for non institutional births in Uttar Pradesh. Only 7 percent of births that took place outside a medical facility were followed by a postpartum check-up within two months of delivery. Overall, these results show that health services during pregnancy, during delivery, and in the postpartum (36)

34 period are not reaching most women in Uttar Pradesh. Thirty-eight percent of currently married women in Uttar Pradesh report some type of reproductive-health problem, including abnormal vaginal discharge, symptoms of a urinary tract infection, and pain or bleeding associated with intercourse. Among these women, 75 percent have not sought any advice or treatment. These results suggest a need to expand reproductive health services, as well as information programmes that encourage women to discuss their problems with a health-care provider. NFHS-2 also asked women about the quality of care received during the most recent visit to a health facility. Most respondents are generally satisfied with the health care they receive. Almost all women (99 percent) received the service they went for on their last visit. Although women had to wait about 25 minutes before being served, 96 percent said that the staff spent enough time with them. However, only 55 percent said that the staff talked to them nicely and only 51 percent rated the facility as very clean. Seventy percent of those who said they needed privacy during the visit said that the staff respected their need for privacy. Ratings of the quality of services are consistently lower for publicsector facilities than for private sector facilities. NFHS-2 also collected information on selected lifestyle indicators for household members. According to household respondents, 34 percent of adult men and 3 percent of adult women smoke, 12 percent of men and less than 1 percent of women drink alcohol, and 36 percent of men and 11 percent of adult women chew paan masala or tobacco. Although the spread of HIV/AIDS is a major concern in India, only 20 percent of women in Uttar Pradesh have even heard of AIDS. Awareness of AIDS is particularly low among women in rural areas, poor women, scheduled-tribe women, and women who are illiterate. Among women who have heard of AIDS, 90 percent learned about the disease from television and 39 percent from the radio, suggesting that government efforts to promote AIDS awareness through the electronic mass media have achieved some success. However, given the low level of exposure to mass media in Uttar Pradesh, AIDS programme will have to find innovative ways of reaching women who are not exposed to mass media. Among women who have heard of AIDS, almost half (45 percent) do not know of any way to avoid infection. NFHS-2 results suggest that health personnel could playa much larger role in promoting AIDS awareness. In Uttar Pradesh, only 1 percent of women who know about AIDS received information about the disease from a health worker. In recent years, there has been growing concern about domestic violence in India. NFHS-2 found that in Uttar Pradesh, there is widespread acceptance among ever-married women that the beating of wives by husbands is justified under some circumstances. More than three out of five women accept at least one of six reasons as a justification for a husband beating his wife. Domestic violence is also fairly common in Uttar Pradesh. Twenty-two percent of ever-married women have experienced beatings or physical mistreatment since age 15 and 13 percent experienced such violence in the 12 months preceding the survey. Most of these women have been beaten or physically mistreated by their husbands. (37)

35 A new project of U.P. Health Sector Restructuring Development Project is being taken up with the financial help from World Bank. Project duration is 10 years. This project aims at policy reform, management development and institution strengthening; management and implementation capacity and improving quality of health services. The Reproductive and Child Health Programme has been launched in the State since April 1998 and includes all components of maternal and child health services, child survival and safe motherhood, family planning services, R.T.I./T.I. and AIDS. The aim of Reproductive and Child Health programme is to induce the confidence in the couple so that they can practice safe sex and voluntarily decide the size of their family. Adolescents are also being targetted under this programme. Availability of Water and Sanitation Availability of water and sanitation affect women the most as they are the proverbial water carriers/ providers for the family and little effort is made to respect their privacy and the disease in matters of ablutions. Rural women have to wait until it is dark to go out and defecate in the open and not without risk. Holding on to full bladders and bowels not only causes discomfort but is medically unsound. This is the least looked into aspect by the State and in rural areas even richer households do not have private bathing or sanitary facilities. Safe drinking water is still to be seen as an element of healthy infrastructure or health and well being of populations. In the absence of safe drinking water, people fall easy prey to waterborne diseases. According to Census of India Household tables released on April 17, 2003, there are a total of 25,760,601 house-holds in Uttar Pradesh. Of these, 23.7% have tap water, 63.4% use hand pumps, 11.6% get water from wells, only 0.7% have their own tube wells and the remaining rely on tank pond, river, canal, spring water etc. In rural areas of the 20,590,074 households only 16% have tap water, 69% depend on hand pumps, 5% on tube wells, 14% on wells and the rest on other sources. In the urban areas of the 5,170,527 households, 54.5% have tap water, 41 % use hand pumps, 1.6% use tube well and another 1.9% use other wells. Drinking water is available to 45.8% of the total number of households in Uttar Pradesh within their premises, 44.1% have a water source nearby and 10.1% have to fetch water from a distance. In the case of rural households, 38.2% have drinking water source within premises, 58.8% near premises and 11.2% have this source away from their residence. In the case of urban areas, 77% households have water within premises, 17.6% have it near premises and 5.4% have to get it from a distance. (Source: Drinking Water Sources & Location Data Sheet, Census of India 2001). Estimated coverage of safe drinking water ranges from 9% in Gonda and Balrampur to 100% in Kanpur Nagar, Lucknow, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Meerut, Firozabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Ballia, Aligarh, Faizabad, Bulandshahr, Azamgarh, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Bareilly, Jyotiba Phulenagar, Moradabad, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Siddarth Nagar and Rampur. Only 33.15% households in UP have access to toilet facilities compared to % at the all India level in In 1991, 18.02% households in UP had access to toilet facilities, only 6.44% in rural areas and 66.54% in urban areas, the corresponding All India figures were 23.70%, 9.48% and 63.85%, respectively. (38)

36 Fact Sheet, Uttar Pradesh National Family Health Survey, Sample Size Households 8,682 Ever-married women age ,292 Characteristics of Households Percent with electricity 36.6 Percent within 15 minutes of safe water supply Percent with flush toilet 10.2 Percent with no toilet facility 73.3 Percent using government health facilities for sickness 11.4 Percent using iodized salt (at least 15 ppm) 48.8 Characteristics of Women 2 Percent urban 20.0 Percent illiterate 70.2 Percent completed high school and above 11.1 Percent Hindu 83.0 Percent Muslim 16.0 Percent Sikh 0.6 Percent regularly exposed to mass media 45.3 Percent working in the past 12 months 23.4 Status of Women 2 Percent involved in decisions about own health 44.8 Percent with control over some money 52.3 Marriage Percent never married among women age Median age at marriage among women age Fertility and Fertility Preferences Total fertility rate (for the past 3 years) 3.99 Mean number of children ever born to women Median age at first birth among women age Percent of births 3 of order 3 and above 58.0 Mean ideal number of children Percent of women with 2 living children wanting another child 45.5 Current Contraceptive Use 5 Any method 28.1 Any modem method 22.0 Pill 1.2 IUD 1.0 Condom 4.2 Female sterilization 14.9 Male sterilization 0.7 Any traditional method 5.7 Rhythm/safe period 4.1 Withdrawal 1.6 Other traditional or modem method 0.4 Unmet Need for Family Planning 5 Percent with un met need for family planning 25.1 Percent with unmet need for spacing Water trom pipes, hand pump, covered well, or tanker truck 2 Ever-married women age For births in the past 3 years 4 Excluding women giving non-numeric responses 5 Among currently married women age Quality of Family Planning Services 6 Percent told about side effects of method 14.3 Percent who received follow-up services 50.5 Childhood Mortality Infant mortality rate Under-five mortality rate Safe Motherhood and Women s Reproductive Health Percent of births 8 within 24 months of previous birth 29.1 Percent of births 3 whose mothers received: Antenatal check-up fom a health professional 34.3 Antenatal check-up in first trimester 16.9 Two or more tetanus toxoid injections 51.4 Iron and folic acid tablets or syrup 32.4 Percent of births 3 whose mothers were assisted at delivery by a : Doctor 14.2 ANM/nurse/midwife/LHV 8.1 Traditional birth attendant 34.6 Percent 5 reporting at least one reproductive health problem 38.1 Awareness of AIDS Percent of women 2 who have heard of AIDS 20.2 Child Health Percent of children age 0-3 months exclusively breast fed 56.9 Median duration of breast feeding (months) 25.8 Percent of children 9 who received vaccinations: BCG 57.5 DPT (3 doses) 33.9 Polio (3 doses) 42.3 Measles 34.6 All vaccinations 21.2 Percent of children 10 with diarrhea in the past 2 weeks who received oral rehydration salts (ORS) 15.8 Percent of children 10 with acute respiratory infection in the past 2 weeks taken to a health facility or provider 61.3 Nutrition Percent of women with anaemia Percent of women with moderate/severe anaemia Percent of children age 6-35 months with anaemia Percent of children age 6-35 months with moderate/ severe anaemiall 54.5 Percent of children chronically undernourished (stunted) 55.5 Percent of cliildren acutely undernourished (wasted) Percent of children undemeighe For current users of modem methods 7 For the 5 years preceding the survey ( ) 8 For births in the past 5 years (excluding fjist births) 9 Children age months 10 Children under 3 years 11 Anaemia-haemoglobin level < 11.0 grams/decilitre (g/dl) for children and pregnant women and < 12.0 g/dl. for non pregnant women. Moderate/severe anaemiahemoglobin level < 10.0 g/dl 12 Stunting assessed by height-for-age, wasting assessed by weight-for-height, underweight assessed by weight-tor-age (39)

37 Occupational Structure and Work Participation Nearly 75% of the population earns its livelihood from agriculture which contributes 36% of the State Domestic product (SDP). The vision brought out in the State Agriculture Policy 1999 aims at transforming the State into a granary of the Nation to ensure food security through self sut1iciency in food grains production and diversification of agriculture. All women in rural areas are seen working on family holdings as cultivators and as wage labour. According to Census 2001, of the million population of UP, only million (32.6%) were workers. Women accounted for 12.8 million (23.6%) of the workers. Among these 12.8 million female workers, 4.39 million (34.32%) were cultivators; 5.18 million (41.22%) were agricultural labourers; 1.07 million (8.34%) were employed in household industry and 2.06 million (16.13%) were other workers. Among the total of 12.8 million female workers; 11.8 million (92.19%) were in rural areas leaving just a million (less than 8% ) urban women listed as workers. Employment statistics show invariably large gender differentials with much lower participation rates among women compared to men and are taken as an indication of non productivity of females, reflecting a primary concern with the organized sector and total disregard for women s work in the household economy. Women do primarily use value work whereas men are engaged in cash value work. According to a study (ASTRA 1981) if we disaggregate human energy spent on domestic work (cleaning, sweeping, washing clothes and utensils and child care) and productive work, the contribution of men, women and children is 31 %, 51 % and 16% respectively of total human hours per household per day. Female Work Participation Rate As per 1991 Census, there were 12.9% female workers compared to male workers in the state. The Work Participation rate (WPR) for men was 47.26% compared to 16.28% among women in The proportion of non-workers was 84% for males and 53% for males. As for the national trend, men predominate among the main workers and women among the marginal workers. Among the male workers in UP 84% were main workers and 16% were marginal workers, among women workers 38% were in the main workers category and 62% were marginal workers. Table 8 : Percentage of Woekrs, Main Workers, Marginal Workers and Non Workers in 2001 Total % workers % Main workers % Man(nal workers % Non workers Rural Urban Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females Persons Males Females UP Total Rural Urban (40)

38 India Total Rural Urban Source: Census of India, 2001 District wise data shows FWPR ranging from 5.75% in Saharanpur, 36.62% in Chitrakoot. While the overall Female Work Participation Rate (FWPR) for UP was 16.28%, it was 18.89% for rural females and only 6.19% for urban females; the corresponding male figures being 47.26%, 47.84% and 45.08% - indicating very little rural urban difference among men. At the All India level also, the female work participation rate among rural women is far higher than that for urban women. The higher participation rate of rural women is in no way indicative of their higher economic status. In fact, rural women workers are mostly illiterate, unskilled marginal workers, engaged in cultivation, farm labour and household industries. Majority of them belong to underprivileged sections of the population, such as the SC, ST, marginal farmers households and are egaged in farm work as daily wage workers. Most labour intensive farm operations like paddy transplantation, weeding, winnowing and cleaning are almost exclusive to women workers. Household industries like making leaflet plates, bamboo baskets, embroidery/chickan work, bidi making, bangle making absorb large number of women and child workers from poverty households for keeping their bodies together. Table 9 : Women & Employment in the Organized Sector in UP & India 1991 & 2000 Public Sector Private Sector Government Quasi Government Local Total Large Smaller Total Grand Central State Central State Bodies Estts. Estts. Total UP , ,677.0 India 3, , , , , , , , , UP , India 3, , , , , , , , ,959.9 Note : (1) Large establishment refer to those employing 25 or more workers and small establishment employing 10 to 24 workers. (2) The data on employment pertains to 31st of March 1991 and 31st March (3) Goa is included in Daman and Diu. Source : Employment Review, DGE&T, Ministry of Labour, Government of India, New Delhi. The proportion of women working in the organized sector is very small. Organized sector includes all establishments in the public sector irrespective of the size of the establishment and those non agricultural (41)

39 establishments in the private sector which employ ten or more employees. In UP, only about 7% women were in the organized sector. A study of Zari workers done by SEWA, Lucknow branch found that the minimum wages for an eight hour work for men fetched them Rupees 47 whereas women of the same area were paid Rupees 8-10 for the same work. The problems of female workers are not confined to wage discrimination but they face many other problems. Exploitation and harassment by family members, employers and contractors, officials and the community at large. There is lack of the mandatory child care, medical care, sanitation and proper working conditions. Forther, women lack adequate education, training and guidance. Women lack access to their own earnings which are misused by the husbands, including alcoholism. Forther 93% who are in the unorganized sector even lack a formal claim to maternity benefits, child care services and cover of provident fund, gratuity etc.in low income households, children are dependent largely on mother s wages. (UNICEF, 1994) (42)

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41 CHAPTER - II LITERACY AND EDUCATION According to census 2001, UP ranks 31st on overall literacy, 30th on male literacy and 32nd on female literacy. The literacy rate for the state is per cent with per cent for males and per cent for females. The corresponding rates at the 1991 census were 40.71, and per cent respectively. The literacy rate percent in Uttar Pradesh has gone up from 12.02% in 1951 to 57.4% 2001; male literacy having gone up from 16.2% to 70.2% and female literacy from 41% to 43 % during this period. In 2001 there were a total of million literate in age 7+, among them million were males and million were females. The absolute number of illiterate population in 2001 was million comprising million (36.86%) male and million (63.15%) females. The absolute number of illiterate population in 2001 was million comprising million (36.86%) male and million (63.15%) females. Table 10 : Literacy Rate of Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes in UP & India 1981 to Male Female Person Male Female Person Scheduled Castes UP All India Scheduled Tribes UP All India Note: Literacy rates for SC and ST for UP in 1991 ore inclusive of districts which have gone to Uttaranchal Source: Literacy Digest, NLM, Directorate of Adult Education, MHRD, 1988; Selected Educational Statistics , Department of Education, MHRD, page 21 and Literacy Digest, NLM, Directorate of Adult education, MHRD, GOI, ND, 1988 (45)

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48 Literacy Rates for SC/ST SC literacy rates for UP are higher than that of India as a whole. SC literacy rate was 40.80% for males in UP compared to All India average of 49.91% for SC. The SC female in UP had a literacy rate of 10.69% compared to the All India average of 23.76%. ST literacy rate for UP are higher than the All India average. UP has a very small tribal population. Among them 49.95% males were found literate compared to 40.65% for India. ST female literacy rate was 19.86% in UP in 1991 compared to the All India average of %. Female Literacy Female literacy is considered to be a more sensitive index of social development compared to overall literacy rates. Female literacy is negatively related with fertility rates, population growth rates, infant and child mortality rates, and shows a positive association with female age at marriage, life expectancy, participation in modern sectors of the economy and above all with female enrolments. Female literacy rate has grown at faster pace during There is an overall gain of per cent points while gain in literacy for females (18.61 per cent points) is higher than males (15.41 per cent). Though overall improvement in the literacy rate in case of males is less than females, yet the proportion of literates among males is higher than females and the literacy gender gap is more than 21 percentage points. There are thirty-nine districts, which have recorded literacy rate above the state average (57.36 per cent). Female literacy ranges from 8.75% in Shrawasti (carved out of Bahraich) to 72.5% in Kanpur Nagar and 54.49% in Kanpur Dehat. Kanpur Nagar district continues to lead in literacy (77.63) followed by Auraiya (71.50), Ghaziabad (70.89) and Etawah (70.75). Surprisingly, Auraiya (52.90) which was at the fifth spot at the 1991 Census has now come on the second spot after pushing back Lucknow (69.39), Ghaziabad (70.89) and Etawah (70.75). There are 5 districts viz., Shrawasti (34.25), Balrampur (34.71), Bahraich (35.79), Budaun (38.83) and Rampur (38.95), which have recorded literacy rate less than 40 per cent. However, 39 districts have reported literacy above state average (57.36). Thus, Shrawasti district, with only per cent literates, is at the bottom while at the 1991 census, the lowest literacy was recorded in Bahraich district (22.67) out of which Shrawasti district has been carved out. (52)

49 Rural Urban and Regional Disparities Table 11 : Literacy for UP and India by sex and by rural urban areas 1981 to 2001 (percentage) Male Female Persons Male Female Persons Male Female Persons Combined UP All India Rural UP All India Urban UP All India Note 1. Census not held in Assam in 1981 and Jammu & Kashmir in Literacy Rate is defined as the proportion of literates to the population in the age group For Census 1981, Literacy rate was defined for the population 6+. To ensure comparability in this exercise it bas been re-estimated for the population 7+. Source: Census of lndia-social and Cultural Tables; 1991-Paper 2 of 1992, Series 1, Census of India 1991; Based on Preliminary Census 2001 estimates. Female Literacy Rate is less than 30% in 8 Districts of UP namely Maharajganj, Siddharthnagar, Rampur, Gonda, Budaun, Bahraich, Balrampur, Shrawasti. Female literacy is between 30-40% in 19 Districts; falls between 40-50% in 26 districts and is above 50% in total of 13 Districts namely Kanpur Nagar, Lucknow, Auraiya, Ghaziabad, Etawah, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Kanpur Dehat, Meerut, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Saharanpur, Chitrakoot, Jhansi, Mau, Jalaun, Baghpat and Farukkabad. The rural urban divide is very sharp, only 30% rural females are literate compared to 53% urban females. Districtwise data amply brings out the rural urban disparities; for instance female literacy is as high as 71 % in Kanpur Nagar urban areas and 47% in Kanpur Nagar rural areas., as is evident from table. 30 districts have rural female literacy rate of less than 30% to include districts with the lowest rural female literacy of Bahraich (14.81%), Shrawasti (14.26%) and Balrampur (l4.68%). In 34 districts rural female literacy falls between 30-40% and in 6 districts it is between 40-50%. None of the 70 districts have female rural literacy above 50%. Ghaziabad (40.27%), Mainpuri (40.45%), Etawah (44.47%) Auraiya (46.50%) Kanpur Dehat (43.99%) and Kanpur Nagar (47.26%) (53)

50 In the case of urban areas, no district falls in less than 30% bracket. Only 6 districts have female literacy rate between 30-40%; 22 districts have female literacy rate between 40-50% and 43 districts have female literacy rates ranging between 50-70%. Table 12 : Distribution of Districts by Female Literacy Rate in Uttar Pradesh 2001 District (FLR* < 30%) District (FLR* 30-40%) District (FLR *40-50%) District (FLR* > 50%) 1. Maharaigani (28.64%) 1. Mirzapur (39.89%) 1. Kannauj (49.99%) I. Kanpur Nagar (72.50%) 2. Siddharthnagar (28.35%) 2. Mohoba (39.57%) 2. Muzaffamagar (48.63) 2. Lucknow (61.22%) 3. Rampur (27.87%) 3. Basti (39.00%) 3. Varanasi (48.59%) 3. Auraiva (60.08%) 4. Gonda (27.29%) 4. Bhadohi (38.72%) 4. Agra (48.15%) 4. Ghaziabad (59.12%) 5. Budaun (25.53%) 5. Hardoi (37.62%) 5. Bijnor (47.28%) 5. Etawah (58.49%) 6. Bahraich (23.27%) 6. Banda (37.10%) 6. Hathras (47.16%) 6. Gautam Buddha Nagar (54.56%) 7. Balrampur (21.58%) 7. Kheri (35.89%) 7. Allahabad (46.61%) 7. Kanpur Dehat (54.49%) 8. Shrawasti (18.75%) 8. Pilibhit (35.84%) 8. Ambedkar Nagar (45.98%) 8. Meerut (54.12%) 9. Bara Banki (35.64) 9. Chanduali (45.45%) 9. Firozabad (53.02%) 10. Sant Kabir Nagar (35.45%) 10. Fatehpur (44.62%) 10. Mainpuri (52.67%) 11. Bareilly (35.13%) 11. Gorakhpur (44.48%) 11. Saharanpur (51.42%) 12. Sitapur (35.08%) 12. Ghazipur (44.39%) 12. Chitrakoot (51.28%) 13. Jyotiba Phulenagar (35.07%) 13. Ballia (43.92%) 13. Jhansi (51.21%) 14. Shahjahanpur (34.68%) 14. Aligarh (43.88%) 14. Mau (50.86%) 15. Sonbhandra(34.26%) 15. Mathura (43.77%) 15. Jalaun (50.66%) 16. Moradabad (33.32%) 16. Deoria(43.56%) 16. Baghpat (50.38%) 17. Lalitpur (33.25%) 17. Jaunpur (43.53%) 17. Farrukabad (50.35%) 18. Kushinagar (30.85%) 18. Faizabad (43.35%) 19. Kaushambi (30.80%) 19. Bulandshahr (42.82%) 20. Pratapp;arh (42.63%) 21. Azamgarh (42.44%) 22. Unnao (42.40%) 23. Sultanpur(41.81%) 24. Hamirpur (40.65%) 25. Etah (40.65%) 26. Rae Bareli (40.44%) Note: FLR - Female Literacy Rate Source: Census of India: Uttar Pradesh 2001 (54)

51 Table 12A : Distribution of Districts by Female Literacy Rate (Rural) in Uttar Pradesh 2001 District (FLR* < 30%) District FLR* 30-40%) District (FLR* 40-50%) District (FLR* > 50%) 1. Moradabad (19.43%) 1. Saharanpur (38.22%) 1. Ghaziabad (40.2 7%) 2. Rampur (16.68%) 2. Muzaffumagar (36.77%) 2. Mainpuri (40.45%) 3. Jyotiba Phule Nagar (24.86%) 3. Bijnor (35.79%) 3. Etawah (44.47%) 4. Mathura (29.19%) 4. Meerut (40.00%) 4. Auraiya (46.50%) 5. Etah (29.61 %) 5. Baghpat (39.93%) 5. Kanpur Dehat (43.99%) 6. Budaun (16.18%) 6. Gautam Buddha Nagar (38.94%) 6. Kanpur Nagar (47.26%) 7. Bareilly (21.09%) 7. Bulandshahar (32.27%) 8. Pilibhit (25.25%) 8. Aligarh (3137%) 9. Shahjahanpur (25.97%) 9. Hathras (36.12%) 10. Kheri (26.00%) 10. Agra (31.16%) 11. Sitapur (25.03%) 11. Firozabad (39.14%) 12. Hardoi (27.72%) 12. Unnao (31.77%) 13. Lalitpur (21.41 %) 13. Lucknow (33.06%) 14. Hamirpur (29.74%) 14. Rae Bareli (30.78%) 15. Mahoba(28.01%) 15. Farrukhabad (37.51%) 16. Banda (25.41%) 16. Kannauj (39.05%) 17. Kaushambi (23.21%) 17. Jalaun (38.66%) 18. Barabanki (26.78%) 18. Jhansi (32.1 3%) 19. Bahraich (14.81%) 19. Chitrakoot (38.71 %) 20. Shrawasti (14.26%) 20. Fatehpur (34.15%) 21. Balrampur (14.68%) 21. Pratapgarh (33.94%) 22. Gonda (19.48%) 22. Allahabad (30.01 %) 23. Siddharthnagar (21.49%) 23. Faizabad (32.32%) 24. Basti (29.73%) 24. AmbedkarNagar (35.94%) 25. Sant Kabir Nagar (27.34%) 25. Sultanpur (32.96%) 26. Maharajganj (21.31%) 26. Gorakhpur (30.70%) 27. Kushinagar (23.64%) 27. Deoria (33.85%) 28. Sant Ravidas Nagar (29.21%) 28. Azamgarh (34.57%) 29. Mirzapur (29.02%) 29. Mau (38.56%) 30. Sonbhadra(l9.13%) 30. Ballia (34.58%) 31. Jaunpur (34.19%) 32. Ghazipur(34.60%) 33. Chandauli (34.53%) 34. Varanasi (37.68%) Note: FLR - Female Literacy Rate Source: Census of India: Uttar Pradesh 2001 (55)

52 Table 12B : Distribution of Districts by Female Literacy Rate (Urban) in Uttar Pradesh 2001 District (FLR* <30%) District (FLR* 30-40%) District (FLR*40-50%) District (FLR* > 50%) 1. Rampur (38.13%) 1. Muzaffornagar (48.20%) 1. Saharanpur (53.45%) 2. Jyotiba Phule Nagar (37.71%) 2. Bijnor (45.75%) 2. Meerut (50.70%) 3. Budann (37.49%) 3. Moradabad (42.32%) 3. Ghaziabad (56.83%) 4. Shahjahanpur (36.12%) 4. Baghpat (49.17%) 4. Gautam Buddha Nagar (54.31%) 5. Shrawasti (38.95%) 5. Bulandshahar (45.01%) 5. Mathura (50.75%) 6. Azamgarh (34.60%) 6. Aligarh (46.75%) 6. Agra (5 1.68%) 7. Hathras (47.23%) 7. Mainpuri (56.62%) 8. Firozabad (49.77%) 8. Kheri (52.27%) 9. Etah (46.85%) 9. Sitapur(50.88%) 10. BareiIly(42.46%) 10. Unnao (53.48%) II. Pilibhit(44.35%) II. Lucknow (63.43%) 12. Hardoi (48.57%) 12. Rae Bareli (57.25%) 13. Kannauj (48.99%) 13. Farrukhabad (55.25%) 14. Mahoba(46.25%) 14. Etawah (60.32%) 15. Kaushambi (41.45%) 15. Auraiya(64.34%) 16. Barabanki (45.85%) 16. Kanpur Dehat (57.51%) 17. Balrampur (46.15%) 17. Kanpur Nagar (7Ul %) 18. Siddharthngar (48.32%) 18. Jalaun (54.56%) 19. Sant Kabir Nagar (45.82%) 19. Jhansi (59.18%) 20. Maharajganj (49.16%) 20. Lalitpur(54.80%) 21. Varanasi (42.53%) 21. Hamirpur(50.71%) 22. Sant Ravidas Nagar (45.79%) 22. Banda (52.15%) 23. Chitrakoot (55.78%) 24. Fatehpur (54.09%) 25. Pratapgarh (56.09%) 27. Allahabad (65.66%) 28. Faizabad (58.35%) 29. Ambedkar Nagar (54.55%) 30. Sultanpur(61.42%) 31. Bahraich (50.34%) 32. Gonda (56.68%) 33. Basti (61.52%) (56)

53 District (FLR* <30%) District (FLR* 30-40%) District (FLR*40-50%) District (FLR* > 50%) 34. Gorakhpur (60.75%) 35. Kushinagar (50.41%) 36. Deoria (54.25%) 37. Mau (51.97%) 38. Ballia (50.59%) 39. Jaunpur(54.55%) 40. Ghazipur(53.16%) 41. Chandauli (55.10%) 42. Mirzapur (51.52%) 43. Sonbhadra (63.18%) Note: FLR - Female Literacy Rate Source: Census of India: Uttar Pradesh 2001 Growth of Educational Institutions at the School Stage in Uttar Pradesh The number of educational institutions has gone up from 35,836 in to in and UP is said to have the largest number of educated in the country even when more than half of its population is illiterate. Table 13 : Recognized School level Educational Institutions in Uttar Pradesh School Stage Hr. Sec. School Boys (84.40) (85.23) (82.26) Girls (15.60) (14.77) (17.74) Total (100) (100) (100) Rural Areas (50.96) (68.23) (83.84) Sr. Basic School Boys (83.60) (77.98) (84.62) Girls (16.40) (22.02) (15.38) (57)

54 Total (100) (100) (100) Rural Areas (69.52) (89.77) (86.96) Jr. Basic School Boys * (92.12) (100.00) Girls 2520 * * (7.88) Total (100.00) (100.00) (100) Rural Areas (74.14) (92.32) (90.38) Nursery School Source: Shiksha ki Pragat Uttar Pradesh * Since I all primary schools have been made co-educational in the State During to the number of primary / Jr. Basic schools have gone up from to The number of senior basic schools have gone up from 2854 to and the higher secondary schools have gone up from 987 to 8459 during this period. Senior Basic Schools meant exclusively for girls number 3021 accounting for 15.38% of the total number of Senior Basic Schools. At the Higher Secondary level, institutions exclusively meant for girls number 1501 or 17.74% of the total number of8459 schools. As several studies show, parents in rural areas and among Muslims in both rural and urban locations, coeducation and male teachers are not acceptable for girls. There are a total of 98,248 villages in Uttar Pradesh and at present there are only 78,079 Junior Basic Schools, Senior Basic schools and 7,092 Higher Secondary Schools in rural areas. This is a major constraining factor for universalisation of Elementary Education in Uttar Pradesh especially from the point of view of girls enrolment as parents do not like to send girls beyond their own village for further education. Also, there is enough evidence to show that the transition rate of girls is much higher where the school is located within the village or is a complete middle or secondary school. As yet even access in terms of availability of primary and middle schools is not universal, leave alone enrolment, retention and successful achievement. Rural areas need more schools, more girls schools and more women teachers. There is a shortage of 55,000 teachers at the primary stage. (58)

55 (59)

56 Progress of Girls Education at the School stage in UP There are a total of students enrolled in recognized institutions in UP comprising of whom (33.44%) are girls ( ). During and : i. The number of girls at the primary level (Junior Basic) classes I-V has gone up from in to in and their percentage share has moved from to ii. iii. The number of girls at the Senior Basic Level (classes VI-VIII) has gone up from to during this period and their percentage share at this stage has moved up from to The number of girls at the Higher Secondary Stage (classes IX-XII) has gone up from to and their percentage share has more than doubled from to during this period. Table 14 : Enrolments at School Stage in UP , & School Stage * Hr. Sec. School (Classes IX-XII) Total Girls % Girls Sr. Basic School (Classes VI-VIII) Total Girls % Girls Jr. Basic School (Classes I-V) Total Girls % Girls Source: Shiksha ki Pragati Uttar Pradesh * Annual Report , MHRD, Department of Education (60)

57 Table 15 : Districtwise Female Literacy Rate and Girls and Women Teachers as percentage to total at School Stage (2000) in ljttar Pradesh Sl. District FLR < Primary upper Primary Higher Secondary No. (%) Girls as % Women Girls as % Women Girls as Women 2001 to total Teachers as to total Teachers as % to Teachers as % to total % to total total % to total District (50%+) I. Kanpur Nagar Lucknow Auraiva Ghaziabad Etawah Gautam Buddha Nagar Kanpur Dehat Meerut Firozabad Mainpuri Saharanour Chitrakoot Jhansi Mau Jalaun Baghpat Farrukabad District (40-50%) 18. Kannauj Muzaffarnagar Varanasi Agra Bijnor Hathras (61)

58 Allahabad Ambedkar Nagar Chanduali Fatehuur Gorakhpur Ghazipur Ballia Aligarh Mathura Deoria Jaunpur Faizabad Bulandshahr Pratapgarh Azamgarh Unnao Sultanpur Hamirour Etah Rae Bareli District (30-40%) 44. Mirzapur Mohoba Basti I Bhadohi Hardoi Banda Kheri Pilibhit Bara Banki Sant Kabir Nagar (62)

59 Bareiliy Sitapur Jyotiba Phulenagar Shahjahanpur Sonbhandra Moradabad Lalitpur Kushinagar Kaushambi District «30%) 63. Maharajgani Siddharthnagar Rampur Gonda Budaun Bahraich Balrampur Shrawasti Note: FLR - Female Literacy Rate Source: Census of /india Girls as percentage to total: Inter district variations Girls as percentage to total at the primary stage range from a low % in Ambedkar Nagar to 46.48% in Ghaziabad. The percentage of women teachers ranges from 9.52% in Maharajganj to 57.23% in Kanpur Nagar. The percentage of girls to total at the upper primary stage ranges from 17.33% in Siddharthnagar to % in Kanpur Nagar. The Percentage of girls to total number of students ranges from 16.76% in Siddharthnagar to 43.l1% in Lucknow. As is evident from Table 14, the inter district / regional disparities are extremely large in Uttar Pradesh. Districts with less than 40% female literacy are extremely poor in participation of girls at all stages of school education as well as in proportion of women teachers to total at various stages. It may be pertinent to point out that in UP, there is still a persistent demand for single sex schools for girls and women teachers in large parts, especially among the rural communities and in the Muslim minority concentration areas. (63)

60 Situation of Muslim Women and Girls Close to 18% of the state population is Muslim and female literacy and educational participation in this community continues to be low although no official figures are available. Figures relating to Muslim concentration districts as identified by the Centre for special interventions like Area Intensive Development Programme with focus on education of girls have been emboldened in Table 14. These districts except more urban districts like Meerut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur have female literacy below 50% and as low as 23% in Bhairaich, for instance. Table 15 gives some key indicators of social and demographic development in relation to the Muslim minority concentration districts. Population growth is high, family size is large; and barring Meerut, Saharanpur and Ghaziabad (proximity to Delhi), use of family planning methods is very poor and in Basti and Bijnor, more than three-fourths of the girls are married before the age of eighteen, proportion of women receiving skilled attention during pregnancy is woefully poor and road connectivity is low. Enrolment Ratio at the Elementary Stage The Gross Enrolment ratio for classes I-V in UP in the year 2002 was 80.93% for boys and 49.36% for girls. Among the SC children this ratio was 91.62% for boys and 52.64% for girls. For ST children this ratio was 86.72% for boys and 61.30% for girls. The Gross Enrolment ratio at the middle stage classes VI-VII was 46.94% for boys 23.47% for girls. Among SC children this ratio was 54.59% for boys 20.38% for girls. For ST children this ratio was 74.09% for boys and 38.76% for girls. (Annual Report , MHRD, Department of Education). Table 16 : Gross Enrolment Ratio in Classes I-V and VI-VIII in UP Classes I-V (6-11 years) Classes VI-VIII (1l-14 years) Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Uttar Pradesh (General) Uttar Pradesh (SC) Uttar Pradesh (ST) Source: Annual Report , MHRD, Department of Education According to NSSO , the attendance rate was 61% in the age group 6-10 in UP and 69% in India. In age group the attendance rate was 66% for UP and 72% in India. In the age group years the attendance rate was 45% for UP and 50% for India. In the age group the attendance rate was 12% for UP and 14% for India. Attendance rate for classes I-V was 59% for UP and 66% for India. In Classes VI-VIII the attendance rate was 33% for UP and 43% for India. In Classes IX and X the attendance rate (64)

61 is 19% for UP and 26% for India. In Classes XI and XII the attendance rate was 12% in UP and 15% in India. Gross Drop out Rate Table 17 : Gross Drop out Rates in Classes I-V, I-VIII and I-X for General Children Classes I-V Classes I-VIII Classes I-X Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total Boys Girls Total UP India Source: Selected Educational Statistics , MHRD, GOI. Drop out rates continued to be exceedingly high in Uttar Pradesh. The Gross Drop out rate for classes I-V was % for girls and 52.93% for boys and for classes I-VIII the Gross Drop out rate was 68.54% for girls and 56.26% for boys. In Classes I-X, 73.17% for girls and 56.22% for boys are drop outs. (2000-0]). In the Gross Drop out rate for classes I-V has come down to 59.79%, girls and 49.98%for boys. For Classes I-VIII the drop out rate now is 71.51%for girls and 59.06% for boys and for Classes I-X it is 74.90% for girls and 57.30% for boys (Annual Report , MHRD, Department of Education) Reasons for Low Enrolment and Drop out of Girls at Elementary Stage In Uttar Pradesh, education of girls suffers both from low supply and low demand. There is shortage of schools especially in rural areas and poverty and traditional views hamper educational participation of girls. Regional disparities are large with regard to provision of physical infrastructure on account of difficult terrain and ecological conditions. The variations in UP are immense. Providing schools within the easy reach of children is a major challenge in rural and remote areas especially in the light of relatively low physical mobility of girls. The small size of the habitations and scattered population groups even with the same habitation and long inter settlement distances make it difficult to open schools within habitations or within easy walking distance. At times, even relaxation of norms does not help in situations where the physical distance measured in kilometers is compounded by the ecological and topographical constraints. In certain areas, there is the added problem of mobile populations who keep on moving from one location to another in search of food and livelihood. Opening of small schools is not viable financially and academically. Besides the schools, basic educational equipment like blackboards, chalk, maps, globes, books, furniture are in short supply in these areas and do not reach the schools on time. Though provision of the physical infrastructure is not a guarantee of quality, a basic minimum is needed for ensuring a good teaching-learning situation. Given the difficult geographic and climatic conditions that may restrain access to schools far away and the (65)

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